Relative Dating

What is Relative Dating?

  • Relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determining their absolute age. In geology, rock or superficial deposits, and fossils can be used to correlate one stratigraphic column with another.

The 3 Laws:

  • (1) Original horizontality.

  • (2) Lateral continuity.

  • (3) Superposition.

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